Elf Freunde müsst ihr sein

Despite price increases across the
board the deck is still one of the cheaper Modern decks, with Cavern of Souls as the only really expensive card. The deck performed
really impressive during the final match of the tournament, which
means you should sell into the hype, trying to extract the most value
out of your Elves while you can. Most players just look at the end
result of any tournament instead of trying to see the whole picture.
In this case we have a bunch of indicators that Elf Company is not
going to be the next “best” Modern deck.

The Magic Online Championship was
using four different formats and Modern was only played for four
rounds, during which both Elves players just performed 2-2.

Two of the four players with 3-1
or better records in Modern did not make the cut to Top4 due to
their other results.

Modern was not used in the
semifinals, but only in the finals.

After getting wrecked in Vintage,
Jasper De Jong seemed to be losing his nerves and made some
questionable decisions with his land drops in the first Modern game against the Elves deck. On turn 4 he could have had the mana for Path to Exile open, in
case he found an Eternal Witness with his Collected Company
(which he did). He also should have taken two from his shock-land,
tutored for and played Melira, Sylvok Outcast on turn three, as
that would have won the game in case he drew any creature (to
discard for Fauna Shaman) on the next turn. He could also have
sacrificed Noble Hierarch to scry for a creature with Viscera Seer.

Some decks are better than others
at disrupting a swarm of small creatures. If you are aiming to beat
Elf Company, you should be able to do that with the right deck and sideboard.

Overall I expect Elves Company to be a
decent, but not dominant deck. It will be heavily played for a short
time, before getting hated out of the format. It will show up again
periodically, whenever the amount of hate is low again, but most of
the deck's card prices are likely peaking right now. If you are a
dealer, sell those cards into the hype now. If you are a player
looking for an exciting new deck, you should either wait a little, or
be prepared to overpay for most of those cards.